Summer 2005
Volume 22 Number 2
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to the Alumni section: Stanford Med Alumni Update
Cover Story:
Medication nation: Pills a-poppin'
America the pharmaceutical
For better and worse, we are a society steeped in drugs. Nearly half
of all Americans — 123 million people — now routinely take
some kind of prescription drug. And this is just the tip of the iceberg,
as drugs will increasingly permeate our lives, experts say. >> Read Story
What would Goldilocks do?
About 70 percent of all drugs prescribed to kids have never been tested
in children, either for safety or efficacy. A complicated brew of financial,
ethical and physiological hurdles has relegated kids
to second-class citizens when it comes to drug development and testing. >> Read Story
Rush to safety
For years, some patient advocates and lawmakers have publicly questioned
the efficacy of the FDA, the agency charged with approving and monitoring
medications. But many experts agree that the real culprit isn’t the
FDA itself. The problem is a severely underfunded and inadequate system
for monitoring the safety of already-marketed drugs. >> Read Story
To think that I saw it on Pharmacy Street
The lighter side of America the pharmaceutical >> Read Story
A conversation with Faith Popcorn
The future of pharma: For starters, a robot will fill your prescriptions >> Read Story
The name game
Zyrtec, Gleevec, Xanax and Pronestyl — these drug names
all sound like they come from another planet. Just why do drug names
have all those Xs, Ys and Zs? >> Read Story
Inside the FDA panel on Cox-2 inhibitors
Stanford anesthesiology professor Steven Shafer does not like to
be in the spotlight. But as a member of the FDA advisory committee that
in February reviewed Cox-2 selective painkillers’ safety, he couldn’t
escape it. >> Read Story
More Stanford Medicine
Letter from the Dean
Letters to the editor
Faculty
profile: Academic history – Halsted
Holman started shaking up Stanford medical school 45 years ago. It hasn't
been the same since.
’Scope: A quick look at the latest developments
at Stanford University Medical Center
Ask the
bioethicist: Guinea kids – Is it ethical to
test drugs on children?
Short take: Tsunami's wake – A first-hand
account from India
In
brief: Mummography – Imaging
techniques unwrap child mummy
Stanford Med Alumni Update
Letter from SUMCAA Association
Linda Hawes Clever, MD, '65
Past President, Stanford University Medical Center Alumni Association
Looking back and projecting forward >> Read Letter
Alumni profile: William Northway
One man's extraordinary career in children's film — X-ray film,
that is >> Read Story
Class Notes
Catch up on the latest news about your classmates >> Read Story
